# Friedrich Nietzsche

- Id: `nietzsche`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/nietzsche/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `d165682bd57cb12cc6e4640c80148eb352cd88f7e9e0508a8121fc8ad4d35006`

## Summary

A philologist turned genealogist of morals, Nietzsche tests which forms of life our ideals nourish and what they train us not to see.

## Overview

Nietzsche died on 25 August 1900; his productive authorship ended with the January 1889 collapse.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1844–1900",
    "era": "Long nineteenth century",
    "distance": "126–182 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 56
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "modern-philosophy",
    "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
    "detail": "Modern philosophy",
    "labels": [
        "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "Modern philosophy"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 1900,
    "display": "1900 CE",
    "reason": "Nietzsche died on 25 August 1900; his productive authorship ended with the January 1889 collapse."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 24,
    "passages": 3589,
    "languages": [
        "de",
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
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    {
        "name": "Röcken",
        "period": "1844",
        "description": "Birthplace.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Schulpforta",
        "period": "1858-1864",
        "description": "Boarding school and classical education.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Naumburg",
        "period": "childhood and recurring stays through the 1880s",
        "description": "Family home and recurring base between journeys.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-life-works/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Leipzig",
        "period": "1865-1869",
        "description": "Philology studies.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Basel",
        "period": "1869-1879",
        "description": "University professorship.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Zurich",
        "period": "1880s",
        "description": "Documented stop during the itinerant writing years.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-life-works/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Recoaro Terme",
        "period": "1880s",
        "description": "Health and writing stay named in the biographical chronology.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-life-works/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Genoa",
        "period": "1880s",
        "description": "Recurring winter residence and writing.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Messina",
        "period": "1882",
        "description": "Mediterranean stay associated with the Idylls from Messina.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-life-works/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Rapallo",
        "period": "1880s",
        "description": "Winter writing stay on the Ligurian coast.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-life-works/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Florence",
        "period": "1880s",
        "description": "Documented Italian stop during the itinerant years.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-life-works/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Venice",
        "period": "1880s",
        "description": "Documented Italian stop and intellectual meeting place.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-life-works/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Rome",
        "period": "1882",
        "description": "Documented visit during the Paul Rée and Lou Salomé episode.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-life-works/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Nice",
        "period": "1880s",
        "description": "Recurring winter residence.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Sils Maria",
        "period": "1881-1888",
        "description": "Summer refuge and major writing landscape.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Turin",
        "period": "1888-1889",
        "description": "Final productive months and collapse.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Weimar",
        "period": "1897-1900",
        "description": "Final residence and death.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/"
    }
]
```